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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014

Bridget Riley
The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014
David Zwirner

Bridget Riley, Prairie (acrylic on linen, two panels, 196.9 x 786.2 cm), 2003/1971

Occasionally, I spent my night with the computer or the iPod at my side. With the headphones over my head. Laying down in silence listening to music. It could be an opera from a classic composer, or a set of albums by a particular band, or, even, have the shuffle bottom on and let the music came to me randomly and surprisingly. Which is my favourite way: a classic followed by industrial followed by pop followed by world music or a ranchera followed by dark-metal...

All throughout the night I have the deep pleasure of revising places and experiences begone. Answers to questions asked. A particular song, the singer's voice, a sentence trigger a set of stimulus. Create rhizomorph connections and relational structures. The beat, the silences, the melody spring like poems after a wine drinking evening in the company of close and intense companions, new and old friends around a dinning table until dark turn light.

This comes about Bridget Riley's Stripe paintings on show at David Zwirner gallery in Mayfair. Variations, patterns, compositions and modulations, explorations on movement, perception emerging from each painted line. Sound escapes from each different panel and flows constantly through each room, submerging in a given time our presence.

Bridget Riley, Après Midi (oil on linen, 231 x 197.5 cm), 1981

Bridget Riley, Après Midi, 1981 [detail]

«David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by British artist Bridget Riley organized in collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Featuring paintings and studies selected from all periods of her career, from 1961 to 2014, the show will be installed throughout the three floors of the gallery, making it the artist’s first major survey in London since her 2003 retrospective at Tate Britain.» [...MORE...]

Bridget Riley, Horizontal Vibration (emulsion on board, 44.5 x 141 cm), 1961

Bridget Riley, Tocatta (Green) (oil on linen, 150 x 258.2 cm), 2014-2013 [detail]

Bridget Riley, Lilac Painting 5 (oil on linen, 171.5 x 140.3 cm), 2008/1983

Bridget Riley, Red Modulation (Yellow and Orange)
(oil on linen, two panels 154.7 x 266.3 cm [L] and 154.8 x 266.2 cm [R]),
2014-2013 [detail]

«Riley’s dedication to the interaction of form and colour has led to a continued exploration of perception. From the early 1960s, she has used elementary shapes such as lines, circles, curves, and squares to create visual experiences that actively engage the viewer, at times triggering optical sensations of vibration and movement.» [...]

Bridget Riley, Elysium (acrylic on linen, 261 x 236 cm), 2003/1973

Friday, 4 April 2014

Michael Riedel: Laws of Form

Michael Riedel
Laws of Form
David Zwirner

Darling, you don't go into an opening with a pen and paper, taken notes about the artworks with the intention of doing a critic or review. It is a not do! You do it a couple of days later. Definitive not on the opening day because, apart from all the booze and social buzz, how can you see whatever in a packed room.

Second, it does look like more that I'm Scream London, with all the trendy, or not so much, people from the music world on an Grammy's nights, celebration the Rolling Stones half-century success, rather than on an opening of an exhibition. I'm so glad!

Nice building, nice clean wall, as someone said recently - a White-Chelsea -, and nice kiss in the British' ass.

«Michael Riedel was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Frankfurt, where he received a Meisterschüler at the Städelschule in 2000. Since joining David Zwirner in 2004, the artist has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery in New York: Neo (2005), Filmed Film (2008), The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (2011), and PowerPoint (2013).

In 2013, Riedel was invited by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to create a series of three site-specific installations in the museum’s event space. Currently on view is the first presentation, Jacques comité [Giacometti], for which the artist covered the walls and floor with 4073 “o’s” extracted from the transcript of a recording made during the deinstallation of a Giacometti exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The artist’s second installation, titled Dual air [Dürer], opens April 24, 2014, and repurposes materials from a recent Albrecht Dürer show at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.» [...MORE...]